-Good God! how a man might lead such a creature as this round the world with him!

I had not yet seen her face 'twas not material; for the drawing was instantly set about, and long before we had got to the door of the Remise, Fancy had finish'd the whole head, and pleased herself as much with its fitting her goddess, as if she had dived into the TIBER for it but thou art a seduced, and a feducing flut; and albeit thou cheatest us seven times a day with thy pictures and images, yet with fo many charms dost thou do it, and thou deckest out thy pictures in the shapes of fo many angels of light, 'tis a shame to break with thee.

When we had got to the door of the Remise, she withdrew her hand from across her forehead, and let me fee the original it was a face of about fix and twenty of a clear transparent brown, fimply fet off without rouge or powder - it was not critically handfome, but there was that in it, which attached me much more to it It was interesting; I fancied it wore the characters of a widow'd look, and in that state of its declenfion, which had passed the two first paroxyfms of forrow, and was quietly beginning to reconcile itself to its lofs distresses might have traced know what they had been quire, (had the same bon

but a thousand other the fame lines; I wish'd to and was ready to enton of conversation permitted, as in the days of Eldras) thee? and why art thou disquieted? and why is thy understanding troubled?" - In a word, I felt benevolence for her; and resolved some way or other to throw in my mite of courtesy- if not of service.

"what aileth

Such were my temptations - and in this dispofition to give way to them, was I left alone with the lady with her hand in mine, and with our faces both turned closer to the door of the Remise than what was absolutely necessary.

THE REMISE DOOR.

CALAIS.

This certainly, fair lady! said I, raising her hand up a little lightly as I began, must be one of Fortune's whimsical doings: to take two utter strangers by their hands of different sexes, and perhaps from different corners of the globe, and in one moment place them together in such a cordial situation, as Friendship herself could scarce have atchieved for them, had she projected it for a month

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And your reflection upon it, shews how much Monfieur, she has embarassed you by the adven

When the fituation is, what we would wish, nothing is fo ill-timed as to hint at the circumstances which make it so: you thank Fortune, continued she -you had reason the heart knew it, and was fatisfied; and who but an English philofopher would have fent notices of it to the brain to reverse the judgment?

In faying this, she disengaged her hand with a look which I thought a sufficient commentary upon the

text.

It is a miserable picture which I am going to give of the weakness of my heart, by owning, that it fuffered a pain, which worthier occasions could not have inflicted. I was mortified with the loss of her hand, and the manner in which I had lost it carried neither oil nor wine to the wound: I never felt the pain of a sheepish inferiority so miferably in my life.

The triumphs of a true feminine heart are short upon these discomtitures. In a very few seconds she laid her hand upon the cuff of my coat, in order to finish her reply; so some way or other, God knows how, I regained my fituation.

- She :

She had nothing to add.

I forthwith began to model a different conversation for the lady, thinking from the spirit as well as moral of this, that I had been mistaken in her character; but upon turning her face towards me, the spirit which had animated the reply was fled the muscles relaxed, and I beheld the fame unprotected look of distress which first won me to her interest. melancholy! to fee such sprightliness the prey of forI pitied her from my foul; and though it may feem ridiculous enough to a torpid heart, - I could have taken her into my arms, and cherished her, though it was in the open street without blushing.

row.

The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was paffing within me: she looked down - a filence of some moments followed,

I fear, in this interval, I must have made some flight efforts towards a closer compreffion of her hand, from a fubtle sensation I felt in the palm of my own -not as if she was going to withdraw hers - but, as if she thought about it and I had infallibly lost it a second time, had not instinct more then reason directed me to the last resource in these dangers to hold it loosely, and in a manner as if I was every moment going to release it, of myself; so she let it continue,

continue, till Monfieur Dessein returned with the key; and in the mean time I fet myself to confider how I should undo the ill impreffions which the poor monk's story, in cafe he had told it her, must have planted in her breast against me.

THE SNUFF-BOX.

CALAIS.

The good old monk was within fix paces of us, as the idea of him crofs'd my mind; and was advancing towards us a little out of the line, as if uncertain whether he should break in upon us or no. He stopp'd, however, as foon as he came up to us, with a world of frankness; and having a horn snuffbox in his hand, he presented it open to me - You shall taste mine faid I, pulling out my box (which was a finall tortoise one) and putting it into his hand 'Tis moft excellent, said the monk; Then do me the favour, I replied, to accept of the box and all, and when you take a pinch out of it, sometimes recollect it was the peace-offering of a man who once used you unkindly, but not from his heart.

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